Amtrak, the nation's government-supported passenger rail service, is undergoing several expansion and modernization projects, upgrading trains, tracks and stations, with a particular emphasis on ...

Amtrak experienced a nationwide outage of its federally mandated safety braking system for 90 minutes earlier this month for reasons still being investigated. The rail operator has until next week to ...

President Biden, sometimes called "Amtrak Joe" for his train enthusiasm, appears to be living up to the name. The $2 trillion infrastructure plan Biden released this week calls for $80 billion to ...

A widespread Amtrak system failure has left thousands of passengers stranded across the United States as the national rail service struggles with a major technological breakdown that began Friday ...

On April 15, 2024, a Facebook page titled The sound of Train posted an image of two maps purporting to compare passenger train lines in the United States and Europe (archived): The post had gained 117 ...

2002-02-15 04:00:00 PDT Washington-- House members began the debate yesterday over whether Congress will pump vast amounts of money into a revived national passenger rail service or follow a ...

This train could be going 150 miles an hour if we fixed the overhead wires. Photo: Doug Kanter/AFP/Getty This train could be going 150 miles an hour if we fixed the overhead wires. Photo: Doug ...

Amtrak has revealed the current progress of almost 30 high-speed rail infrastructure projects as part of its July update on the Northeast Corridor. The map shows progress on headline projects like the ...